Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org> writes:
> The thought occurs to me that we're looking at this from the wrong
> side of the coin. I've never, ever seen query plan time pose a
> problem with Postgres, even without using prepared statements.
That tells more about the type of queries you tend to run than about
whether there's an issue in general.
> Anyone
> who actually cares that much about plan time is certainly going to
> use prepared statements,
This is simply false. There's a significant performance hit caused
by using prepared statements in many cases where the planner needs
to know the parameter values in order to make good decisions.
regards, tom lane